Contemporary Examples. 1  But Turkish troops stopped these panic-stricken civilians at the Turkish border. 2  Another sign took a different approach: âI am Turkish I cannot Keep Calm.â. 3  The Kurds accuse the Turkish government of seeing them as a greater danger than Islamic militants.
This type of learning is called respondent conditioning, the learning model in which one stimulus, as the result of being paired with a second stimulus, comes to elicit a response it did not elicit just previously. Usually this new response is similar to the response previously elicited only by the second stimulus.
Diagram of operant conditioning. Operant conditioning (also, âinstrumental conditioningâ) is a learning process in which behavior is sensitive to, or controlled by its consequences. For example, a child may learn to open a box to get the candy inside, or learn to avoid touching a hot stove. Positive reinforcement (reinforcement): This occurs when a behavior (response) is followed by a stimulus that is appetitive or rewarding, increasing the frequency of that behavior. 2  For example, if a rat in a Skinner box gets food when it presses a lever, its rate of pressing will go up.